Matt Berninger

Serpentine Prison

Matt Berninger


Tom: G#m

  G#m                              E
I see the starlight through the clouds
  B                F#
Why won't anybody listen to me?
 G#m                          E
Don't make me say it again out loud
 B                           F#
Big Star are doing Don't Worry Baby
  G#m                       E
Bipolar pride, swim in the tide
   B                                  F#
Keep your deadhead above and your chin up
  G#m                 E
You're gonna have a pretty hard time
 B             F#
Without drugs, without love


[Chorus 1]
 E                B
Total submission, I've seen a vision
 E                    B
Everyone's screaming, I've been daydreaming
E                 B
Sorry I'm fishing without permission
G#m                         C#
Tell her I'm missing in a serpentine prison


[Verse 2]
 G#m                         E
Don't try to connect the dots anymore
  B                           F#
Let them go, they're gonna do it on their own
 G#m                    E
Tell me that I'm not in this alone
  B                         F#
And I, I'm so sorry, I don't know why I'm slow
G#m                    E
I feel like an impersonation of you
   B                  F#
Or am I doing another version of you doing me?
 G#m                    E
Nobody's ever really thinking about us
  B                      F#
Half as much as we want them to be


[Chorus 2]
 E                 B
Total frustration, deterioration
E            B
Nationalism, another moon mission
E                B
Total submission, I've seen a vision
G#m               C#
Call electrician, serpentine prison


[Chorus 3]
E                B
Whatever it is I try not to listen
E                 B
Cold cynicism and blind nihilism
E                 B
I need a vacation from intoxication
G#m                 C#
Tell her I'm missing in a serpentine prison


[Verse 3]
G#m                    E
I've been picking my kid up from school
B                   F#
Smelling like girl scout cookies and drool
 G#m                    E
I still crawl up to you every night
 B                 F#
Do not forgive me, I'm a reptile
 G#m               E
You say I'm a lot, I'm hard to take
B                    F#
I think you're just drinking the water
 G#m                 E
I walk into walls and I lay awake
  B                    F#
I don't want to give it to my daughter


[Chorus 1]
 E                   B
Total submission, I've seen a vision
  E                       B
Everyone's screaming, I've been daydreaming
  E                     B
Sorry I'm fishing without permission
    G#m                  C#
Tell her I'm missing in a serpentine prison


[Chorus 2]
  E                  B
Total frustration, deterioration
  E                B
Nationalism, another moon mission
    E                 B
Total submission, I've seen a vision
    G#m               C#
Call electrician, serpentine prison


[Chorus 3]
   E               B
Whatever it is I try not to listen
    E                 B
Cold cynicism and blind nihilism
     E                  B
I need a vacation from intoxication
    G#m                   C#
Tell her I'm missing in a serpentine prison


[Chorus 1]
   E                  B
Total submission, I've seen a vision
   E                      B
Everyone's screaming, I've been daydreaming
    E                     B
Sorry I'm fishing without permission
    G#m                       C#
Tell her I'm missing in a serpentine prison